Landforms JY

Northern Africa

Southwestern Asia

Hindu Kush
-mountains (over 22,000 ft)
-a natural border between Afghanistan and Pakistan
-snow-capped peaks


KARA KUM DESERT
-desert of south-central Turkmenistan
-about 115,000 sq.miles


PAMIR
-mountains
-stretch across much of Tajikistan and parts of Afghanistan, China and Pakistan
-over 22,000ft


SYRIAN DESERT
-desert
-200,000 sq, miles
- parts of Jordan, Syria, Soudi Arabia, western Iraq
- very little rain falls
- arid wasteland
- Arab nomads
-raise cattle and camels
-oil piplines


TAURUS MOUNTAINS

-across southern Turkey to its borders with Iraq and Iran

- 16,583 ft. high

- mountain


TIEN SHAN (also Tian)
-1,500 miles across Kyrgyzstan and well into China,
-19,000 ft
-mountain

ZAGROS MOUNTAINS
-along southern and western Iran and into northern Iraq.
-9,000 ft

- mountain
-southwestern Morocco along the Mediterranean coastline to the eastern edge of Tunisia

GREAT RIFT VALLEY
- depression on the earth's surface, 4,000 miles in length,
- from the Red Sea area near Jordan in the Middle East, south to the African country of Mozambique.


NILE RIVER SYSTEM
- the longest river in the world (flows north),
-rising from the highlands of southeastern Africa and running
- 4,160 miles (6,693 km) in length, to then drain in the Mediterranean Sea.